Ahmed Mansour, a senior Al Jazeera Arabic TV journalist,
was detained at a Berlin airport at the request of the
Egyptian authorities.
Mansour was arrested at Berlin’s Tegel airport at 1320 GMT
on Saturday as he tried to board a Qatar Airways flight from
Berlin to Doha.
In a phone call, Mansour told Al Jazeera that he would
remain in custody until Monday when he will face a
German judge who will decide on his case.
Mansour was sentenced in absentia to 15 years in prison by
Cairo’s criminal court in 2014 on the charge of torturing a
lawyer in Tahrir Square in 2011.
Mansour rejected the charges as absurd, while Al Jazeera
dismissed the accusation as a flimsy attempt at character
assassination against of one of its leading journalists.
Al Jazeera journalist detained in Germany
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